With more than 2,500,000 U.S. personnel serving across the planet and military bases spread across each continent, it's time to face up to the fact that our American democracy has spawned a global empire. Full Story »
Posted by Kaizar Campwala
I will confess my bias towards being a fan of Chalmers Johnson, and recommend most of his writing. He is asking questions that many won't. One of the questions that grunts in the military would like to ask is, with so many troops on so many bases, how come the same combat units have to keep going back to the sand box of Iran, or the mountains of Afghanistan, or both, so many times, while the rear echelon in the military itself seems to go on happily, without breaking a sweat. That's the kind of question that comes up in hospitals ...
